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World News and Prophecy: September - October 2003

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Jails Overflow, While Justice Flags

  • by Cecil Maranville
"Do the crime. Do the time." This popular slogan slathered over billboards and bumper stickers reflects a politically popular approach toward crime. The approach is partially effective, but the cost is choking states, counties and municipalities—and more importantly, it is not rehabilitating criminals.

Written in Stone or on the Heart? The Controversy Over the Ten Commandments

  • by Darris McNeely
Over 80 percent of Americans surveyed in one poll said they favored keeping the Ten Commandments on display in the Alabama Judicial Building. That's good. Whether they would want to see Alabamans—or all Americans—truly living under the moral dictates of all God's commandments is another question entirely.
A Bible laying on a park bench.

The Ancient Prophecies of Amos: Applicable to the 21st Century?

  • by John Ross Schroeder
Does what we see happening to our Western world today relate to Bible prophecy? Will we eventually exhaust God's longsuffering and patience if we persist in our transgressions of His laws? What are some of the main principles we should learn from the Old Testament book of Amos?